They Call It Puppy Love Challenge

Each year Barb over at Booker T's Farm hosts a puppy love challenge that challenges everyone to read a book(s) that includes a dog in it. I try to make sure I'm reading at least one dog book during the month of February, and I have the perfect book this year.

 
Alone is a middle grade post-apocalyptic novel written in verse. It just came out last month, and I'm dying to find out what has happened in this world and to get to know the characters.

You can find out more about Barb's challenge via her Challenge Announcement - They Call It Puppy Love 2021

Stephen King Challenges and a Readalong

11/22/63 READALONG

First off I want to point out a readalong for 11/22/63 over at Feeding My Book Addiction. It will take place this month (January), so if you are like me and you have Stephen King's latest tome sitting on the shelf, join us! There will be two posts:

Post One: Saturday 1/14/12 Covering Parts 1-3 (approximately 350 pages in the hardcover edition)

Post Two: Tuesday 1/31/12 Covering Parts 4-6 (approximately 500 pages in the hardcover edition)

You can get all the details and sign up here.


THE STEPHEN KING PROJECT

Natalie over at Coffee and a Book Chick has recently become a fan of Stephen King. As you can imagine, she now wants to get her hands on more of his books. She has joined up with Kathleen from Boarding in My Forties to host The Stephen King Project.

Stephen King movie adaptations count as well, but you should post more book reviews than movie reviews.

I'll be joining in with my review of 11/22/63, and any success that may come from The Dark Tower Reading Challenge I will detail below this one.

You can find all of the details regarding The Stephen King Project here.


THE DARK TOWER READING CHALLENGE

Leighanne's Lit is hosting The Dark Tower Reading Challenge. Some of you may remember I was making my way through The Dark Tower series at the beginning of last year. I'm currently stuck somewhere within The Wolves of the Calla.

I've been pretty open about my struggles with The Dark Tower. I did enjoy The Drawing of the Three, but my journey for The Dark Tower has not been an easy one.

According to Goodreads I have read 42 Stephen King books. Reading The Dark Tower is more of a Stephen King completist goal for me.

If The Dark Tower has eluded you and you want to take up the journey with me, you can find all of the details for The Dark Tower Reading Challenge here.

Happy New Year! Reading Resolutions and Challenges

Happy New Year everyone! Reading has been a resolution of mine for as long as I can remember. Every year I resolve to read at least 50 books. I think roughly a book a week is an active and considerable amount. This past year I managed to read 76. There is no doubt that blogging is a fantastic tool to meet that goal.

This year I'm going to join a few challenges that line up with my personal reading resolutions.




I joined the Goodreads challenge again this year. I realize that I read 152% of my goal last year, but I'm going to keep my goal at 50 again this year. My intent isn't to read more and more each year, it's to remain an active reader.




Evie from Bookish is hosting a TBR pile challenge. This is a challenge I need. I own so many books I haven't read yet. A lot of them were purchased as "must reads", too. I know this challenge will be even tougher for me now that I am blogging and seeing new books every day that I want to read.

The truth is - I suck at challenges. Midnyte Reader's Dusty Volumes challenge did actually help me last year, though. I try to mix in the classics each year, and last year I had to challenge myself. I didn't read all the ones I had planned since I reread The Lord of the Rings instead, but it did keep me on task for Frankenstein at least.

I haven't decided which Dusty Volumes I will read yet. Last year I meant to read A Stir of Echoes and I Capture the Castle. Maybe I'll get to those. I do plan to reread To Kill a Mockingbird again this year.

How about you? Do you set reading resolutions for yourself each year?